Great programmers don't just happen !
Interesting day, watching Googles I/O 2011 sessions online. Amazing that one can watch a developers convention at home via the internet, The discussions were all about Chrome, Chrome Books (Googles version of the next best laptop PC) and HTML 5. They seem awfully excited about the concept of subcribing to get a Chrome book ($28 a month) laptop as if it
Read moreBasic (the programming language) has often been viewed by professional programmers as a beginners language or simply a toy language to play with (hobby). Is this true ? Absolutely not! Why should a professional use Basic as a programming language ? First let me say, that not just any Basic will do. The reason I use Powerbasic is because it
Read moreBackward compatibility is something software developers have to consider when writing their next generation of software. The question is, is it important ? My answer is yes! Let’s take something like Windows. I read an interesting article which discussed the different views within Microsoft about whether backward compatibility in the Windows operating system was important. In the past it was
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